About
We Were Doing This Before "Talent Acquisition" Was Even a Phrase.
Whether you're hiring for a single critical role or building a selection process across your entire organisation, Talent Select brings 40+ years of assessment expertise to help you make confident, objective, evidence-based decisions, every time.
Forty Years Is a Long Time in Any Industry. In Ours, It Means Something Specific.
We've watched hiring trends come and go, competency frameworks, structured interviews, AI screening tools, and we know what actually predicts performance versus what just feels rigorous. The assessments we use, including the OPI, aren't picked from a brochure; they're tools we've worked with across hundreds of organisations and thousands of candidates. We know their strengths, and we know their limits.
We've also built relationships with clients who've stayed with us for decades, not out of loyalty, but because the results keep justifying the decision.
It's Not the Assessments. It's How We Use Them.
We don't hand you a score and walk away. We work with you to understand the role, the team, the culture, and what success actually looks like in your organisation, then give you the insight to make a call you can stand behind.
What we stand for
Do The Right Thing
For our team, clients, suppliers, and community, even when it costs something.
Humbly Proud
Proud of the work we do well, always looking for how to do it better.
Inclusively Empathetic
This is a person-to-person business, not a platform.
Meet the team
Mick Leonard
Chief Operating Officer
Bakang Kganyago
Head of Marketing and Sales
Stephen Shortt
Chief Executive Officer
Talent Select is a family-run business, and part of ETC Consult Ltd.
Proof
Trusted By Teams Who Can't Afford to Get Hiring Wrong
Plus hundreds of organisations over four decades.